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To: StockHawk who wrote (9258)	7/8/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

SH, Briefly, any company that embraces MP3 may suddenly find itself in trouble when the consortium of major record labels and electronics manufacturers blow MP3 out of the water with their new product. . . which incidently is designed specifically to blow MP3 out of the water. Then, when the record companies put a stranglehold on MP3 music on the internet, by restricting their catalogs, forbidding their artists compliance and enforcing piracy laws by mass mailings of cease and desist orders. . . . any company that is associated with MP3 may run and hide. . . . maybe even deny it. . . 3 times before the cock crows the next day. OK, so I am being melodramatic. But there really is a big movement to destroy MP3. . . and it reaches to the highest levels of the industry and to legislation. I have written tons on the subject on my "music internet" thread. As for RRRR, I like the company. Buy MP3. . . I no longer like them. Partly, out of prejudice for the immense amount of piracy that MP3 breeds, whereby artists, songwriters and publishers miss big portions of payments. . . . and partly out of fear of repraisal by the majors. . . . OK, and partly because I don't like the sound of MP3. . . then again, I don't like CD quality either. Rande Is